Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

All the world's a stage.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.

We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat!

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.